Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FUTURE SHOCK HAS COME to Harvard Square...
...Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) cut down 18 maple trees on the bank of the Charles River on November 23 to make way for the construction of a sewer. The move came as a shock to most Cambridge residents, and an immediate outcry temporarily saved the remaining 13 trees. John W. Sears '52, MDC Commissioner, halted the destruction when it was shown that most of the remaining trees were not "sick or dying" as he had contended. But on February 7, Sears said, "We can no longer hold the axes up, we've got to begin work if we are going...
...Presbyterian move came as an unexpected shock to COCU supporters. Princeton Theological Seminary President James McCord, chairman of the United Presbyterian COCU delegation, scornfully called it "an aberration that will have to be corrected." COCU Godfather Blake, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, charged that the vote represented a "misunderstanding of what COCU is all about." Added the Rev. Dr. Paul A. Crow Jr., COCU General Secretary: "I still don't think it represents the United Presbyterian Church...
...mostly portrayed as primitives who are prey to ghastly superstition and threatening to high-toned women. Director Waris Hussein is, from the evidence of this movie, unclear about the difference between suspense and brutality. For some heavy atmospherics, he has Norah's apartment festooned with African masks. For shock he lingers lovingly over close-ups of newly decapitated heads. Whenever he needs some tension, he brings on Actor Perry King to snarl, suggest acts of elaborate sadism and terrify the children. Shirley MacLaine's performance is very good but, under these sorry circumstances, pretty much wasted...
Though ashen from shock and loss of blood, Wallace never lost consciousness. After a seemingly interminable ten minutes, an ambulance arrived. Then it was 25 more minutes from Laurel to Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md. Wallace spent much of the time consoling his terrified wife Cornelia...